The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-03
FLORIDA.

1 Inc Ocala House has closed Tor the season.
Talk of starting a newspaper at Fruitland
| Park is INDUCED in.
The firm of Crosby 81 Gowan, of San
Mateo, has been dissolved.
| The Palatka post office has nearly reached
| the rank of a free delivery Office.
Rev. Mr.. Huff, of Gainesville, will assist
| Mr.. Culpepper in his Ocala revival meetings
| The people of Brevard county will ask the
| Legislature to protect the fish and oysters in
| Indian river.
The frame for new water tank is up
near the Florida Railway and Navigation
| depot at Ocala.
| At Oakland another application has been
made for tract of 100 acres on which to
| plant a lemon grove.
| Twelve thousand dollars has been paid out
at Key West for the purchase of sponge
within the past week.
Fred Fisher and wife, who Travelled over
land from Nebraska, reached the Tallahas.
seee country last week.
| DR.. Myers agent for the Florida Southern
at Ocklawaha station, sold within the month
past over $500 worth of railroad tickets.
Fort Ogden Netos: The SAVANNAH MORN
| ING NEWS has come out in new dress The
NEWS is one of the most progressive papers
in the South.
Mrs G A. Cheatham, the proprietress of
the Central Hotel of Crescent City at the
time of the late fine which destroyed it, has
leased the American House
In the Ocala rife practice at Drnnellen.
| Glover Miller won the $40 gold medal for
the best average shots and Burt Redding
second honor for the best single shot
In January last Elmer Townsend
homesteaded near Blue Springs. In Feb
| ruary following he planted grape fruit
Seed which came up and are now in bloom.
The Fort Myers Press is complaining of
the great amount of produce going to waste
/ in the truck patches. 1t says the finest and
Largest cabbages ever raised will rot where
they grow.
/ The Ocala sash, door and blind factory is
trimming over with orders. One day last
| week Mr.. Price, the foreman, took 81, 500
order from an English gentleman, near
Bruitland Park.
/ There is rumor in Tampa to the effect
| that George Mills, late of the Tampa Til
bune, has been appointed Superintendent of
Public Buildings at st. Louis, No., at a
salary of $4,000 year.
Mr.. Collier, of Key West, and his little
| son have already cleared 81 500 on their to-
mato crop. William Collier has already
sold over 800 bushels of tomatoes off little
over two acres of land at the rate of So per
bushel
4 c. Lowry, of Sumter county, on last
Saturday. while hoeing a watermelon vine
in his garden, stepped on the head of cat
fish running the sharp fin through his shoe
aud into his foot, and now has a much
swollen foot and walks with crutch
i A handsome bequest has been made in the
| will of the late Capt C.. E.. Dyke to the
| Methodist church at Tallahassee in the shape
Of a lot of valuable books for the parsonage
library. Some years ago this library was
l. 4ofo pfoI Nv n I ,,l>.,
gave to it q number of volumes.
1 The steamer Susie B. is lying at the head
4 of the Springs undergoing repairs and wait
! ing the inspection of the United States
| Steamboat Inspector, who viii be along
shortly from Cedar Keys, and then she will
j be put in commission to run in connection
/ with the Silver Springs, Orlando and Gulf,
down the Withlacoochee to Crystal river
and HomosasSa. Capt. Wallace will COM
Blue Springs has been bought by q Wash
| ington D. c., capitalist of Mr. Lane, whose
4 title to same has Just been established by the
| courts, young man by the name of Buryns
| contesting same The purchasers name is
| Brown. The tract is forty acres The terms
of sale are private, but it is said the price
| paid runs up into the thousands of dollars
| The Springs are located almost in the exact
centre of the land bought by Mr.. Brown.
Mr.. Richardson. owner of the WaItham
| House at Longwood, has ousted Mr. Allen,
| who had leased the house, and proposes to
| make improvements at once, which were
prevented by misunderstanding between
him and Mr.. Allen while the latter retained
| possession of the house The grounds will
be fenced and planted, pumps for water
supply and fire purposes put in, and every
| thing done TO make the house ready for
| business next season.
Palatka's Sunday ordinance is now in full
| force, but from an oversight, or some other
cause, it does not provide for the opening of
drug stores or other business house doors on
Sunday. The statute law will hold good
under this ordinance, and all goods will
have to be sold behind closed doors The
statute nor the ordinance does not prohibit
the sale Of ''necessaries,n out Mayor Teas
dale interprets them as above set forth and
will not allow open doors on Sunday.
The board of governors of the Palatka
Board of Trade have secured the large room
over the store of NJ. Loeb for its headqual-
ters, which will be furnished and fitted up
with all necessary conveniences for the
transaction Of business. A secretary has
also been elected, but it is not yet known
whether he will accept or not. New mem
bers continue to be enrolled, and the mem
bership now numbers more than eighty, and
promises to grow to anywhere between 100
and 100.
The friends of Henry Virgins who was
convicted at the late term of the Putnam
Superior Court of murder in the first de-
gree and sentenced to be hanged, have given
notice that they will apply to the Governor
of the State to have the sentence ''relnitted
TO confinement for life Virgins has had
two fair, impartial and exhaustive trials in
the courts, and in each trial the verdict was
the same. 1t is hardly probable that the
Governor viii interfere with the sentence of
the court.
Notwithstanding the frequent arrests of
negroes in PalatlSa in the last few weeks for
burglary, number of worthless scoundrels
are still in the city who make frequent at
tempts at robbery. A few days ago a lady
was awakened from an afternoon nap by a
negro boy walking into her bedroom, he
having entered the house from the rear, and
when caught he meekly asked "if sac was
the lady who wanted washing donesn I'm
fortunately, he was allowed TO leave with
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